Patrick Kennedy, a native of Cloughjordan was a founding member along with Thomas MacDonagh and Éamonn deValera of the Association of Secondary School Teachers of Ireland. The Association was formed at a meeting, on 17 March 1909, held at St Colman’s College, Fermoy. Patrick Kennedy and Thomas MacDonagh were both teachers at St Colman’s at the time. Both natives of Cloughjordan and Kennedy’s father was MacDonagh’s Godfather.
